Dreamcatcher Events Presents

Martin Taylor Guitar Retreat New York

4 days and nights of fingerstyle goodness!

June 20 - 24, 2016

Full Moon Resort,
Big Indian,
NY

Martin Taylor’s Guitar Retreat New York

An amazing 4 days and 4 nights of learning, playing, eating and sleeping guitar in the beautiful Catskills Mountains. Just 2.5 hours from New York City this retreat will be limited to only 30 participants who will join Martin and his guest instructors for an unforgettable musical experience.

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“I’m very excited to once again present the Guitar Retreat in New York on June 20-24. I’ve got a few of these under my belt now, and this is the second time that we’ll be returning to Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Last year was very special. Myself, three instructors, and 30 of you spent four days and four nights improving our guitar playing, getting to know each other, and having an all-around wonderful experience.

“2016 will have a similar structure. We’re keeping it intimate again with 30 students and a few special guests, including Gypsy Jazz guitar teacher Robin Nolan! On the last Guitar Retreat, we got everyone playing a lot more, so you can certainly expect a healthy amount of jamming. I personally can’t wait.

“One thing I particularly enjoy about this program is working with the students on the building blocks. What I like to do is not so much teach tricks or licks, but give you a foundation, so you can go out and create your own music. If you’ve attended a Guitar Retreat with me before, I switch that up ever so slightly to keep the whole process interesting.

“Also, you’ll be playing even more!

“This is a whole experience. It’s not just a matter of going in a room and studying with a guitar teacher or two. We’re going somewhere really nice where there’s good food and good company. If your spouse or partner wants to come along, the more the merrier! They’re welcome to be a part of the Guitar Retreat even if they don’t play.

“One of our big themes this year is Gypsy Jazz. There’s a great soulfulness to it. I don’t see any barrier between solo fingerstyle and gypsy jazz. I love to teach about the sound, phrasing, and the history of this style of guitar playing.

“It’s undergone quite the renaissance. One reason for that is Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown. Most modern players became introduced to the style and Django through the film. I grew up with this music and for ten years toured with Django’s musical partner Stephane Grappelli. It’s in my DNA. I like to introduce other guitarists to this style.

“Last year, we had a very fun segment about accompanying a vocalist. As most guitar players either sing or work with singers, it’s very helpful. Jazz singer and vocal coach Alison Burns joins us for that. I’ll also have luthier Jim Cunningham on site, because taking care of your guitar right is just as important as playing it correctly. In addition, my manager and Music Business Institute founder James Taylor joins us again with his wonderful perspective with a very thoughtful class.

“You can’t get any better than the setting. The only way to improve upon that is to film it and make a video that students can see anytime. That’s what we’ll be doing again! You’ll be able to relive the lessons and keep working on them. No matter how good a guitar teacher is, this is a lot of information packed into a short time, so that’s why we keep it small and offer up the videos.

“Back when I started playing in 1960, I never got to attend anything like this. That’s one of the reasons I love this so much. It opens up the instrument with so many different perspectives.

“Hope you can join us!”

Sincerely,
Martin Taylor

Participants of all ages, levels, interests, and tastes welcome!

Martin Taylor's Guitar Retreat New York is an event for players and music-lovers of all ages, levels, interests, and taste! Whether you are a master player, a beginner, or just an enthusiastic fan, our four day programs offer activities and workshops for you. Our environments are non-competitive and are strictly about immersing oneself in the joys of music and our lovely surroundings!

Testimonials from Past Guitar Retreat Attendees

Martin Taylor

Widely considered to be the world’s foremost exponent of solo jazz and fingerstyle guitar playing, Martin possesses an inimitable style that has earned him global acclaim from fellow musicians, fans and critics alike. He dazzles audiences with a signature style that artfully combines his virtuosity, emotion and humor with a strong, engaging stage presence.

Taylor has enjoyed a remarkable musical career spanning across five decades, with more than 100 recordings to his credit. Completely self-taught beginning at the early age of 4, he has invented and developed a unique way of playing the guitar that is greatly admired, and often emulated, by guitarists all over the world.

In addition to his solo concerts and recordings, he has also collaborated with musicians from many different musical genres, including: Jeff Beck, Tommy Emmanuel, Bill Wyman, Chet Atkins, Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, George Harrison, Jamie Cullum, Bryn Terfel, Dianne Schuur, and Gary Burton.

Taylor brings a rich and varied musical heritage to his play, to the extent that Tommy Emmanuel remarked that [Taylor] is “a portal into all that came before.”

Over his stellar career, Taylor has amassed a record 14 British Jazz Awards as a guitarist. Several of his albums have been in the Top 10 in the USA and Europe.

Guest Instructors

Robin Nolan

Jim Cunningham

Alison Burns

James Taylor

Martin Taylor

History

From 1979 to 1990, he toured the world and recorded over 20 albums with the French jazz violin legend STEPHANE GRAPPELLI. Their album with Vassar Clements “Together At Last” won a Grammy Nomination in 1987. Monsieur Grappelli described him as “A great artist, rich in talent and elegance.”

His ground breaking solo album ARTISTRY, produced by Steve Howe, was released in 1992 to much critical acclaim. It was #1 in the HMV Jazz Charts for a record 12 weeks and launched his career as an international solo artist.

After two very successful albums for Sony/Columbia, KISS AND TELL and NITELIFE, he went on to record several albums for The Guitar Label.

In 1999, Taylor was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of The West of Scotland, and in 2002, he was appointed MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) “For Services To Jazz Music” on The Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which he received personally from Her Majesty The Queen at an investiture at Buckingham Palace.

His autobiography “Martin Taylor- Autobiography of a Travelling Musician” was released in 2005.

In 2007, Taylor received the prestigious BBC Radio 2 “Heart of Jazz” Award in recognition of his career in music and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the North Wales Jazz Guitar Festival for his “Contribution to Jazz Guitar Worldwide”.

2010 was a landmark year for Martin Taylor. The year started with the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama presenting him with his second honorary doctorate. In April 2010, the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy was launched, an online guitar school that propelled Taylor into becoming one of the world’s most recognized and beloved online guitar teachers. This innovative online learning program has been featured on NPR, BBC, Fox News and in the Los Angeles Times and today has students in over 60 countries.

Another milestone was reached in 2010 with the world premier of an exciting new work for guitar, orchestra and big band with the creation of Martin Taylor’s ‘Spirit of Django Suite’. Based on themes by Martin Taylor and arranged by Guy Barker, the debut featured Martin Taylor, his group Spirit of Django, the Guy Barker Big Band, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Later that year, Taylor was invited to perform a special private concert at Windsor Castle for Prince William on the eve of his engagement to Kate Middleton.

2011 featured extensive touring of the Far East, USA, Europe and UK as Martin’s new online profile introduced his music to younger and more international audiences. Taylor also launched the first two models in his own guitar range with Korea-based guitar manufacturer Peerless. The ‘Maestro’ and ‘Virtuoso’ have gone on to achieve both critical and commercial success globally.

With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics in 2012, the BBC made a special performance of the ‘Spirit of Django Suite’ by Martin Taylor and the Britten Symphonia part of their Proms concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Later that year, Taylor joined the International Guitar Night for a three-month tour of the US and Canada.

In 2013, Martin played over 120 shows, as well as finding time to release a new duo album with Tommy Emmanuel and appear on a second album with British actor and blues musician Hugh Laurie. At the year’s end, Taylor received the BrandLaureate International Brand Personality Award in Asia. Previous recipients have included Steve Jobs, Hillary Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Mark Zuckerberg.

2014 sees Taylor undertaking extensive touring, both solo and with his new group, The Great Guitars.

Film/TV Credits

His film credits include the French comedy “Milou En Mai” directed by Louis Malle, and more recently his composition, “Green Lady” is featured in the Andrew Piddington movie “The Killing of John Lennon”.

His many TV credits include the theme music for “After You’ve Gone” featuring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie, and the cult “Nicole-Papa” TV commercials for the Renault Clio.

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Outside of his work as a musician, he is also involved in several charities including the Child Bereavement Charity, and serves as Patron of the My Wish Foundation of Sri Lanka, and a Trustee and Vice President of Scotland’s Buddhist Vihara.

When not touring, the versatile Taylor divides his time between Scotland and California, where the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy is based.

“Martin Taylor is one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument.”
– Pat Metheny

“He out-shred’s all of us put together… I’ve never seen anything like it”
– Jeff Beck

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Robin Nolan

One of the world’s most-respected exponents of Gypsy Jazz guitar since Django Reinhardt, Englishman Robin Nolan’s story began in an evacuation hospital in Vietnam in 1968. The son of musical entertainers, Nolan’s nomadic lifestyle has taken him on a romantic and passionate musical journey that’s rarely travelled in these fast-moving, fame-obsessed times. You might even call it a modern-day fairytale.

Spending his formative years in Hong Kong, Nolan’s Liverpudlian father started to teach him to play guitar at the age of six, unselfishly hoping his son’s talent would go on to shine even brighter than his own.

Nolan was encouraged and taught to play the standards of Hank Williams and the subtleties of traditional jazz. However, like many journeymen before him, Nolan’s musical path led him down many roads before securing a place at the Guildhall School of Music in London where he established himself on the capital’s local jazz scene with his own swing quartet. But it was a trip to the annual Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-Sur-Seine, France with his father and musical mentor in 1991 that changed Nolan’s whole perspective towards music forever.

“I was just blown away with the music and how everyone was playing guitars outside around camp fires – the whole romance of it got me,” he explains. “It hit me over the head – it was just intoxicating. Seeing these gypsies … I’d never seen anything like it – how they live and the music and how important that is to them. As soon as I got back to London I started playing that music.”

Unfortunately for Nolan, the gypsy lifestyle is not something that the London of the early ‘90s was ready to embrace. After struggling to find spots to play his music on the street without being moved by the police or going through the endless bureaucracy and red tape to secure a busking pitch, Nolan decided to pack his bags and take his band to a more liberal city by setting his sights on Amsterdam.

“In 1992 we got into a Volkswagen camper van and all piled over to Amsterdam,” Nolan fondly recalls. “We’d made a cassette in my room in London and we just took a hundred over and we just started playing straight away in Leidseplein Square.”

Fully embracing the gypsy way, Nolan’s freedom to play wherever and whenever he liked in the streets of Amsterdam led to a whole new artistic independence. Using the world as his stage, Nolan’s time in Amsterdam led to many encounters with people from all over the world and a chance encounter which set in motion a series of harmonious opportunities and life-long friendships that are still having repercussions to this very day.

“George Harrison’s old gardener from Friar Park [the Harrison’s home and estate in Henley-on-Thames] came by and bought a CD. He managed to tell George about the music and George said ‘Bring ‘em up and let’s have a party’. It was the summer so we went up to Friar Park and just played around the pool for George, his wife Olivia, his son Dhani, and a few friends. It was just a very nice connection from the beginning. He liked how we were – young and naive and just into the music – no managers or business involved. You could tell he just loved the music.”

This was just the start of a long and beautiful relationship between Nolan and the Harrisons.

“Now I usually play a couple of George songs in the set and tell the story of playing at his house and it’s like, everyone was famous… except for us. You look up and there’s Paul McCartney talking to Ringo and Damon Hill, the Formula One racing car driver, it was intense. You could tell that George was proud of us and enjoyed seeing people’s reactions as we played. It was an amazing experience.”

Robin now teaches gypsy jazz guitar through his online courses, membership programs and via his online magazine Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets which is available on the iTunes store.

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Jim Cunningham

Jim Cunningham began his musical life at age 11 playing the trumpet in the school band of his hometown, Manson, Iowa. By age 14, he had received his first guitar and began the lifelong task of teaching himself to play. Upon graduation from high school in 1972 he auditioned for and was accepted into the United States Navy Music Program as a trumpet instrumentalist.

After completion of the Navy’s Basic Music Course he was stationed at Navy Bands in San Diego and San Francisco, California. At both of these Bands he was officially a trumpet player, but his abilities as a guitarist put him in Navy Rock bands performing in support of Navy Recruiting. In 1976 he separated from the Navy and headed for Boston, Massachusetts to attend The School of Contemporary Music to formally study music. After two years he decided to go back to the Navy, both for the performance opportunities as well as the financial benefits it offered. This time he auditioned as a guitarist. In 1979 he won a spot as guitarist with The United States Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland where he performed primarily with the Navy’s premier Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Electric Brigade. Among the benefits of membership in the Naval Academy Band are permanent duty, so he spent the remaining 25 years in the Navy in Annapolis. Performance duties of Navy guitarists require many facets, including the ability to sight read music and to play multiple styles, so in addition to the rock/pop band, he also performed in an 18 piece jazz band, small combos ranging from duos to quintets, solo performances, as well as occasional concerts as a member of the concert band.

In 2004 Jim retired from the Navy as a Master Chief Musician and began a second career as a luthier and freelance musician. He performs weekly as a member of the jazz trio “Oreo,” playing events along the east coast as a member of the 9 piece band “Raggs and the All-Stars,”. Jim is also an accomplished luthier specializing in building and repairing archtop and acoustic guitars.

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Alison Burns

Alison Burns is an award-winning singer and vocal coach. In 2009 Alison received the International Association of Jazz Educator Award and in 2013 she was presented with the Brand Laureate International Brand Personality Award, whose previous recipients include Aretha Franklin, Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela.

As a touring artist she has played in concert halls in Tokyo, London, New York, Cannes, Italy and Shanghai, has guested with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Big Band and performed at Windsor Castle for Prince William.
As a vocal coach she has helped countless professional and aspiring vocalists improve their singing at workshops in the USA, Europe and Asia.

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James Taylor

James Taylor is an award-winning entrepreneur, creativity expert, marketer and musician. He is the founder of The Music Business Institute and P3 Music. His programs, online courses, events and consulting services have helped music artists and music companies around the world generate millions of dollars in revenues. As a pioneering digital gypsy he divides his time between the Europe, North America and Asia.

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Schedule

We made a point to have every guitar player team up with a partner and come up with duets. That sets the ball rolling. It’s a laidback and fun environment. We’re all here to learn, but also to have a really good time as well.

–Martin Taylor

Look out for a more detailed schedule in the Spring of 2016. In the mean time, check out the expected schedule for 2016 and the full schedule from 2015 below.

FridayJuly 25

8:30-10:30am

Breakfast

11:00am

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Location

Full Moon Resort

Located one half hour west of Woodstock, is a year-round mountain resort in the heart of the “Forever Wild” Catskill Forest Preserve. Dedicated to the celebration of music and art in nature, this one hundred-acre wonderland of mountains, fields, and streams is a world of its own.

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Accommodations

Accommodations are charming in their simplicity, with some rooms in a simple B&B style with shared hallway baths and others with a more traditional country inn style with private bath.Please Note: There is no cell phone reception at the Resort or in Big Indian and Guest rooms do not have telephones, TV’s, air conditioning or daily house keeping. Wi-Fi, cable television and complimentary phone service are available at the Inn (please bring a phone card for international calls). Visit Full Moon Resort for more details.

Dining

Healthy cuisine served by a friendly, professional staff is the trademark of
Full Moon Catering. With menus offering – hot buffet breakfasts and lunches, down-home country barbecues and formal gourmet dinners. Fresh, natural ingredients (often organic) are the common thread throughout.

Area Attractions

You’ll find hiking trails, ski slopes, antique shops and family attractions within minutes. County Route 47 (Slide Mountain Road), is home to three state trailheads, fly fishermen are drawn here to some of the Northeast’s most fabled trout streams, and in Phoenicia, others enjoy tubing and shopping at Catskill Corners.

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Directions By Car

From Albany and Points North:
Take New York State Thruway (87) South towards New York City . Get off at Exit 19, Kingston.

From New York City and Points South:
Take the New York State Thruway (87) North to Exit 19 ( Kingston ). Take Route 28 West (toward Pine Hill.) Travel approximately 30 miles on Route 28 West to Big Indian/Oliverea.

From Points West:
From Exit 14, Interstate Route 88, Oneonta: Travel approximately 57 miles on Route 28 East to Big Indian.

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Air Travel With Musical Instruments

As of March 6, 2015, it’s official and no longer at the discretion of the various airlines. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, musicians who board planes must be allowed to carry on their instruments provided they fit in the overhead bin. If this space isn’t large enough, the musician is also permitted to purchase a second seat in which to stow their musical companion. One caveat: the airlines don’t have to prioritize musical instruments ahead of any other carry-on luggage, so if the bins are full, you’ll still have to check your instrument at the gate. To remedy this, the DoT suggests that musicians may want to pay the airline’s fee for priority boarding to ensure that there will be room for their gear.